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    The power of perception

    Apr 05, 2019 4 minutes

    Dr Monika Fekete is the Founder of Coffee Science Lab.

    “You must realise the power that water has,” explains Yanina Ferreyra, the recently crowned Australian Specialty Coffee Association Australian Brewer’s Cup champion. Reflecting on her journey, she stresses “water plays a gigantic role, but there is much left to discover. Working with water opens up lots of questions”.

    I couldn’t agree more. Experience shows that the mineral make-up of water has a substantial and even somewhat predictable effect on the taste outcomes of coffee. This immediately presents the question: what happens exactly? How do minerals modulate the taste of coffee?

    I have recently reviewed the scientific literature to date on the role of minerals on taste outcomes (see

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